Villagers' house designs

[Monkeido]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these are new designs for the villagers' houses right?

I'm surprised I couldn't find a thread talking about this, though I'm sure it's been mentioned in other threads.

Might this mean we get to pick the villagers' house design, or maybe they'll randomly pick one themselves? Or do you think these are just unique houses for two certain villagers?

 

[Burumun]

Seems like it, with the signs on the left and the lack of a mailbox.

I'm assuming the villagers will have set houses as always, I don't see how this could mean we get to pick the designs ourselves.

 

[ScaryGhosts]

I think it is very possible although i do not see strong evidence for it.

 

[wrenbow]

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[watercolorwish]

Some of the villager houses in New Leaf were atrocious with all the bright throwupy colors lol. These look like an upgrade and a call back to City Folk even

 

[Alolan_Apples]

It looks like they’re going back to what Wild World and City Folk had, while New Leaf was more like the GameCube Version. As much as I like New Leaf over Wild World, this was one thing Wild World was better in. What I did like more about New Leaf, different wall styles, roof styles, and door styles. So that’s two things New Horizons did well in.

Do they right-pointing houses too? I saw two left-pointing houses in the samples.

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

I adore these houses! I don't mind if each animal just has a specific house type or if we get to design it. It's funny cuz when I first saw the trailer I absolutely hated the house designs (including the human villager's). But I think I was just clinging on to what was familiar to me from New Leaf. Once I stopped comparing the two, I realized how much I loved these designs, even more than New Leaf's. So I'm just happy with whatever they come up with.

 

[TheRealWC]

I really like these. I imagine the lamps light up when its dark outside too. That'll be nice to see.

They look a lot more natural and remind me a lot of the City Folk houses. I quite like this direction.

 

[Boccages]

Eunice's house is straight up magnificient. I'd rather all my islander's houses have all the same look.

 

[Pellie]

These houses are looking 100 times better than the New Leaf houses, which I never really liked
to be honest. Here, they are more detailed, bigger and just have a much prettier design, looking
also like a call back to City Folk, which I really like. Don't care if we can design them or not, I'm
just happy that the villager are getting some good looking houses in this game.

Also, can I just pointing out that whatever Freya is wearing in the first picture looks really cute?

 

[jim]

i would love it if later in the game the villagers ask if you could help them decorate their house. we already know they'll ask about their house placement.

if it is possible i just wonder how it'll be approached. will we have to wait for the dialogue option to come up, or can we go to nook's community service center and ask him about it (sort of like how we could at nook's homes but with more options?)

 

[ScaryGhosts]

Yeah, I agree that some of the villager home exteriors in new leaf are absolutely atrocious. Looking at ruby specifically. I put her house directly behind nan?s so you cant see it unless you follow the path up to it. Eek.

 

[lunatepic]

definitely loving the look of these compared to the nl houses! i can't wait to walk around town at night with the little lamps on them lit up and light shining through the window, the one segment of the trailer where they showed the player's tent all illuminated was gorgeous <3

i think there's definitely a possibility of players being able to choose villager house exteriors, seeing as we have control over where they pitch their tents. it would save me the huge migraine of choosing matching villager houses for my town haha

 

[Boccages]

Lots of you guys were commenting how bad New Leaf’s villagers’ houses were. I couldn’t really remember what they looked like so I googled them and OMG are they worst than what I cared to remember. Jesus! Day and night. New Leaf houses looked like portable potty.

We are trading up with New Horizons!

 

[Monkeido]

Lots of you guys were commenting how bad New Leaf’s villagers’ houses were. I couldn’t really remember what they looked like so I googled them and OMG are they worst than what I cared to remember. Jesus! Day and night. New Leaf houses looked like portable potty.
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We are trading up with New Horizons!

I love my boy Static, but his house is one of the worst in New Leaf:

Source (where you can pretty much see all the New Leaf houses): https://aforestlife.com/guides/villager-house-exteriors-in-ac-new-leaf/

 

[watercolorwish]

Lots of you guys were commenting how bad New Leaf’s villagers’ houses were. I couldn’t really remember what they looked like so I googled them and OMG are they worst than what I cared to remember. Jesus! Day and night. New Leaf houses looked like portable potty.
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We are trading up with New Horizons!

LMAO perfect example. I think its because it was the first time we were able to design the exterior and they went crazy and added a bunch of different styles. Maybe they randomized it for some villagers which is why its so ugly? Those screenshots of the houses in NH give me hope for a more refined version of exterior designing in NH!

 

[Pellie]

Lots of you guys were commenting how bad New Leaf’s villagers’ houses were. I couldn’t really remember what they looked like so I googled them and OMG are they worst than what I cared to remember. Jesus! Day and night. New Leaf houses looked like portable potty.
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We are trading up with New Horizons!

From now on, I will call the NL houses 'portable potties'.

But seriously, most houses in NL looking terrible, not just from the shape, but also colorwise. So I'm really
glad that they got a big improvement in NH.

 

[WeiMoote]

Heck, what if you had someone in your town, like Jambette? You couldn't tell if they were home or not, unless you panned up and saw their chimney smoking. Not to mention the indoor lighting outside...

Glad for the change. ^^

 

[MarcelTheFool]

While I liked some the house designs that actually fit the ACNL villagers (I.E Pietros color vomit) I super prefer these. I hope we can somewhat design them, or at the very least help the villagers earn money to upgrade. If not that's fine the houses are super nice.

 

[Rosalie1991]

Just off topic, but the sheep seems to have a new outfit design. In past games they wear their outfit like a scarf, Eunice have it over her arms now


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I don?t hope you can choose the style of the houses. It?s part of the villager personality design IMO and shouldn?t be a players choice